In two days from now, on September 4, Porsche will unwrap the Taycan, revealing the technical specs and what we imagine to be, an extensive image gallery. Until that time comes, though, the Germans are giving us something to get excited about the electric sedan with a special stunt taking place on an aircraft carrier.
Known for recovering the astronauts from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions to the moon, the USS Hornet became the Taycan’s own playground for a few brief seconds. The ship weighs over 27,500 tons and measures 869 feet (265 meters) in length, and was the place where professional racing driver Shea Holbrook put the electric sports sedan through its paces in Alameda, California, accelerating it from 0 to 90.58 mph (145 km/h) and then back to 0 again in 10.17 seconds.
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After the run, Holbrook said: “The deck is a long, long way up and despite appearances, it’s actually quite bumpy. Deliberately accelerating towards thin air and the ocean is a new experience for me, but the Taycan gave me a huge amount of confidence – it was really stable under acceleration and, more importantly, under braking. I built up to the final run, slowly increasing the speed each time until I felt confident and each time the car felt completely comfortable in what it was being asked to do. What a rush!”
Porsche’s VP of the Taycan product line, Stefan Weckbach, called the tour de force “some kind of fun testing than a completely serious one”, meant “to demonstrate the power of the car as it nears the end of its development”. In the end, the exec was “really relieved no one went for a swim.”
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